HARMONIC
MIXTURES

4 MUSICIENS

MARCH 6, 2026 7.30PM

HARMONIC
MIXTURES

MARCH 6, 2026 7.30PM

Dances, fantasias, and songs on instruments by Claude Lejeune, Antoine Guédron, Eustache Du Caurroy, and Michael Praetorius

Since the Middle Ages, polyphony and various contrapuntal devices have been used to represent both the harmony of the heavens and what humans do under the heavens. Despite its lofty aims, however, learned music in the 16th century was never far removed from popular music. French composers skilfully wrote naughty songs evoking natural processes, even employing themes from fashionable songs, sometimes with very saucy lyrics indeed, in works intended for the Church. In the instrumental realm, serious forms rubbed shoulders with the most imaginative variation pieces, as did a variety of dances whose pace and rhythms betray their peasant origins, while contrapuntal care gave compositions a remarkably opulent texture.

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Date

March 6, 2026

7.30PM

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Auditorium des Archives nationales
535 Avenue Viger E
Montréal, QC
H2L 2P3

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Francis Copron

Flute

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Flutist Francis Colpron has been recognised for some years now as one of the most talented musicians of his generation. His quality and capacity for artistic and interpretative innovation have been acclaimed for nearly three decades by audiences, critics and cultural authorities alike. In 1991, he founded the ensemble Les Boréades de Montréal, and has been its artistic director ever since. Each year, he organises a highly successful Montreal season with the ensemble, performs in North America and Europe, and records on the Atma Classiques label.

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